How can you afford it?

[how.about.another.slice]

After being away several months, I notice many of the same faces are still spending all day posting, despite their assurances that they work. One even spent a whole day waiting until 5.30 pm before posting just to prove she is employed!!! (only people unemployed or on benefits for years would assume the average work day is still from Nine-to-Five LOL!)

My question is, how do you afford to be here so much? Do you live off savings, an inheritance, divorce settlement, or do you simply chat from a library or a second hand notebook on limited internet usage?

To get a decent computer costs at least $2000 and without good internet connection, chatting on a forum isn't even worth it, so are these regulars going into debt over the boards? Would a bank even loan or credit them enough to supplement their activites and time usage here?

It's all very puzzling...

[poddster]

Once again you have not read what I have written.

You are right , I do make MY decisions based on fact, however I do NOT make decisions for other people

I have observed countless times that the vast majority are conned into believing that they NEED something or other without having a full understanding of what they are told they need.

[poddster]

The FTTH NBN is a prime example of forcing on people something that the vast majority do not NEED and will never need.

[cherry*135]

FTTP isn't going to happen under the LNP, so why do you still go on about it?

[poddster]

If some one has a need for it it can and will be provided so it will happen.

That is how it should have been in the first place.

[freakiness]

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@poddster wrote:

The FTTH NBN is a prime example of forcing on people something that the vast majority do not NEED and will never need.

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Who are you to say what people will need?

That's just a difference of opinion and yet you claim your opinion is correct and the others are wrong.

The sentence above is a classic example of you insisting you are right and most others are wrong.

Our data usage is doubling approximately every 18 months and about 95% of that is over fixed line networks. The old copper network is not going to be adequate to meet our needs. 

It's not being forced on you. You don't have to use it, stick to mobile wireless and pay extra.

[freakiness]

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@poddster wrote:

If some one has a need for it it can and will be provided so it will happen.

That is how it should have been in the first place.

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There were good and valid reason for not creating a hotch potch user pays system, including the high cost of maintenance and operations.  The ubiquity increases the cost effectiveness because of the scale.  Sure some people can get a fibre connection if they have the big bucks spare to pay for it but why should we facilitate a digital divide when we don't need to?  The divide is great enough without increasing it.

[poddster]

On what do you base your data usage doubling every 18 months?

I have not insisted that I am right, I have voiced my opinion. That opinion is based on experience and observation.

The copper network is servicing the majority of needs now, those copper networks would continue to provide the needs of the majority of users. But the NBN Co. would rip  them up so that they would have the monopoly.

[poddster]

The problem is that under the NBN Co. scheme it is not just user pays but non user as well.

[i-once-was-bump]

1. That red computer just looks like someone put a football jersey over a standard tower.

2. I bought my first laptop late 1990s for home use, I could see not need to take up roon with a full PC and computer desk which then needs a chair. The laptop was a space saver.

3. I have had wireless internet since vodafone intorduced theri version of it.

4. Yes I do know what Chanel No 5 smells like but prefer Madame Rochas or Caleche (by Hermes)

5. I have eaten caviar and I like to wash it down with moet and chandon petite liqueur (beautiful stuff, diabetes in a bottle, yum).

6.. My usual drink of choice is Noble One and I drink it with hot spicy Thai food because the sweetness is perfect with hot spices.

7. When drinking red wine I like Abbot's Prayer but have been know to open a bottle or two of Hill of Grace occasionally.

8. My life is so simple that a computer costing $380 will do me just fine for the next 8 to 10 years (should I choose to buy that one).

9. I love posting on ebay forums because it is my life, everything revolves around the ebay forums.

10. I don't own a pair of ugh boots.

11. I don't own any trakkie daks.

12. Yep I am just your everyday bogan.

[poddster]

Boganz Rulez !!! ones with high I.Q. even more so 🙂